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Rebecca May Johnson

Rebecca May Johnson’s first book is Small Fires: An Epic in the Kitchen. She earned a PhD in Contemporary German Literature from UCL for her study of Barbara Köhler’s reworking of the Odyssey, Niemands Frau.

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Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Doing the Work

Rebecca May Johnson

‘When work is at mealtime, when is mealtime?’

Rebecca May Johnson on waitressing, hunger and eating at work.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Haruspex

Rebecca May Johnson

‘How can I accept a trauma or a loss that I cannot define?’

Rebecca May Johnson on pregnancy and divining the future.

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Essays & Memoir | Issue 160 padlock

The Recipe

Rebecca May Johnson

‘The recipe is a text that can produce spattering because it was spattering before it was language.’

Rebecca May Johnson on recipes, repetition and intimacy.

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition
Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Qualities of Earth

Rebecca May Johnson

‘Allotment earth is like the cache on a public computer, it holds too much information.’

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